DISTURBANCE IN GAOL
: v. ■ 4 . FIGHT BETWEEN PRISONERS SEWING MACHINES WRECKED / ' ' • Sydney, Nov. 25 ■; jt disiurbance among prispners in tH& tailoring shop at Bathurst Gaol, eaijl to be the most serious that has ever occurred at the gaol, reunited in 30 sowing machines being smashed. The damage is estimated at £IOOO. The trouble, which was preceded by a Jight between two prisoners, was quelled by the governor threatening to Call in thn police. Vyter the fight between the two men 1 remainder of the prisoners resumed svork, but later one man picked up a kfa;L ner an d smashed the head of the n ? ao^me he was operating, and W€eki^ IS +T e - rS lm ™?diately set about their machines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 16
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120DISTURBANCE IN GAOL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 16
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